[CheshireTheCat]

Far more deserve to go out of business than actually will.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not to worry. The CCP owns them anyway. They’ll get a CCP bailout.

[Salvey]

For once, there’s some positive news out there!

[caver]

What is the bad news?

[Gnome1949]

Only 20%? It should be much higher.

Thousands of Marxist professors out of work sounds good !

They can deliver pizza or deliver for Amazon.

[centurion316]

Professors ought to be working on their Water Safety Instruction certification from the Red Cross. At least, when their University goes tits up, they can teach swimming lessons.

[OrangeHoof]

The silver lining. A lot of public school districts will also be on shaky financial ground. Maybe in desperation, they might try educating again instead of indoctrinating.

[KarlInOhio]

Once you get beyond 20 or 30 students, the class is a one direction lecture without any give and take with the professor. If you have questions you can mail them in or ask during office hours. So if I am taking a video class anyway, why would I want Professor Smith from Podunk State University when I could get the same class from the best lecturer in the country. 30 or 30,000 students doesn't matter at that point. "Old Harv" may have been a good local physics professor, but I would rather have been taught by Richard Feynman.

[SmokingJoe]

And the good news keeps coming.

[EEGator]

NYU, is this the University that costs 73K and threw a virtual student out for going to a rooftop party?
That NYU...

[ScottinVA]

So.. he makes it sound like it’s a BAD thing.

[SandwicheGuy]

Aw, poor babies... I hear there are some teacher jobs opening up. Overpaid, underlearned, educators should retrain and apply.

[Swordmaker]

GREAT! Couldn’t happen to a more corrupt set of institutions!

[ConservativeMind]

I can’t wait! Too many need to go under.

My wife and I haven’t donated to Alumni Funds for many years. Too many liberal things going on and there’s no way I want my money to help the “disadvantaged” who already get everything free I had to pay for out of my own pocket from a job, which prolonged my graduations by years.

Die, Commie Scum!

[HangnJudge]

Protect STEM programs, Business, Trades

[rfp1234]

That’s a shame. /Seinfeld.

[IndyTiger]

Parents and students will demanding tuition discounts soon. They are paying tuition for in-person instruction, not the University of Phoenix.

[asinclair]

Universities have experimented with ways to leverage their main talent. Almost 50 years ago, there were sections at University of Illinois that used televised lectures, with a teaching assistant to attempt to field questions. The only times that all the students at a given time were in a lecture hall was for mid-terms and finals.

Chemistry and Physics had labs, with several TV sections sharing a facility. Lots of fun.

I wasn't aware of TV sections for Women's Studies and such. There were TV sections for history, English, EASL, and other soft courses.

The Music department limited enrollment to the capacity of their classrooms and practice halls. (Hard limit on organist students.) Theater classes were held in a packed auditorium.

As for those top professors, they didn't teach, except when they took grad students under their wing. Their big thing was scoring large grants for their research.

[Jim Noble]

If the 4 year bachelors degree enrollment were reduced by 80%, the “students” and the nation would both be better off.

[TigersEye]

I guess every tragedy has an upside.

[Ciaphas Cain]